May 31, 2010

Quote of the day, they’re the real heroes edition

For none of us can ever express the exact measure of his needs or his thoughts or his sorrows; and human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.

Gustave Flaubert.

On that note the Deborah Hill-Cone piece in today’s Herald is pretty funny: not as good as her famous rant against epistemology but still special.

Personally, and this is just my particular penchant, I preferred the Cone-Meisters picture when she was wearing severe black rimmed glasses, they set off the full, blood red lips and avant garde hair o so well mmmmmmmmm yes.

Will no-one recognise Hill-Cone’s great courage in standing up for the unloved wives of duplicitous financiers, who are left to send their children to state schools and contemplate finding a job? As Victor Gollancz was to the sufferings of the German population following WW2, so is Hill-Cone to these modern untouchables…